Do you find tech companies... delusional?

I mean, it seems like ever since the death of Steve Jobs, who was the only guy who actually turned crazy technology ideas into practical, profitable business products, the world seems to have entered a reality where they grab onto some cuckoo technology ideas which is just crap, but because they can't think of nothing else better, they actually start to believe it will be the future and change the world in the same way that the iPhone did. EVERYONE IS JUST TRYING TO BE THE NEXT iPhone...

For example:3D TV? Nope, doomed from the first day I saw it, and thank god it is dead.Curved TV? Yeah... No.facebook Oculus Virtual Reality? Proof that Zuckerberg got lucky and couldn't actually come up with another good business idea.Driverless Car? Google should stick to search engines.Personal space travel, drones, electric cars, iWatch

I mean, these all feels like ultimately uncreative ideas that got investment because no one else has figured out what is the real great idea that will actually change the world. They feel like the future and great idea in the same way that the PDAs from the 90's was a "great idea" and "the future".

None of them are truly innovative ideas. The idea of driverless car, space travel, wearing a stupid thing around your eyes so you can't see anything around you, electric cars etc. these are all ideas that has been around for decades, how can you call it innovation and think it is the future?

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Steve jobs didn't do a god damn thing. He was a pitch man, he sold the product he didn't code he didn't invent he stole the techonology and ideas of others (Steve woszniack for instance who invented the personal computer) and then sold it and took credit for it. He was the modern edison except even edison invented some things. In fact nothing apple did was inovative. The iphone was just a cell phone with some features found on computers, texting is just instant messager which itself is just an updated form of writing letters. ie the iphone was an updated idea but not an original one it was built off of everything else that came before it. So yeah, I think virtual reality beats that out as does space travel, by a long shot.

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and yet, I see no one lining up overnight to buy whatever product the virtual reality or space travel has to offer.

i. e. inferior to what Apple achieved when they launched the iPod and iPhone

I don't see people lining up to pay for all the satelites that make the iphone (and every other cellphone, internet, and modern tv) possible, nor the medicines that extend our lives yet here we are. Thats the stupidist argument you could make, value has nothing to do with how much some one is willing to pay for something, gold is valuable but what is it used for? not much. All that says is that people are stupid and have stupid priorities on what is important. And again none of this has anything to do with steve jobs, again he was a pitch man not an inventor other people created the technology he sold it. Suggesting it has something to do with him is like saying being a cashier at a grocery store is the same thing as being a farmer.

satellites and medicine are not consumer products, they do not require a desire from the buyer to buy them, they are needs, not wants, so using that to compare already shows you are quite far below my level.

second, iPhones and other popular consumer products, the only reason people buy them is because they are desirable, it's because of "the pitch" that you laughably look down upon...

"the pitch" is not the simplistic concept of "style over substance" that you obviously have in mind.A Japanese car is cheap and reliable, that is "the pitch" of the Japanese carObama is a man who sold "the pitch" that he will be a good president, he is not the guy sitting at the desk calculating the government tax revenue, or fixing the computer system of CIA.

anyway gone off topic, my point is, VR and driverless car are inhuman and make you look like a twat, so no one will ever use it.

Not on your level? That pretty much invalidates your statement, thats something you say when you cannot come up with anything to disprove the other person and are not creative enough to make an original insult/dismissal. You never stated consumer products you stated technology was less creative and everything is trying to be the next iphone, which is as I pointed out not true. Others have created smart phones as well, that do as much if not more then the iphone, and before you can say iphone was the original that may be true but then the iphone merely took preexisting technology and put it into a phone so even it wasn't really the original. As for the pitch the fact is percieved value will always be inferior to practical application. If you and the rest of the public put value on pebbles that will not change the fact that it has no practicel application rendering its value meaningless. The pitch is how you sell an object to stupid people who can't think for themselves.

So in conclusion, real life altering technology like self driving cars wich are so useful that they are being implemented in cars even now in order to creat advanced emergency systems that will save lives does in fact trump an outdated smart phone that lets you send dick picks and copies pretty much everything the internet can do but is more expensive. Now I know you will not agree with this on account of you being an apple hipster who is to enamored with apple to actually think for yourself but thankfully just because you believe something does not make it true. Seriously how much of a fanboy do you have to be to claim that being able to use the internet in limited capacity on your phone is superior to advanced technologies that save lives and can send a person into space, literally move you out of our atmosphere into space? You have an incredibly limited view.

if you needed me to point out that all the things I have stated are in fact consumer products, then how can you tell me you are at the same level? What, you didn't know a 3D TV is a consumer product? Sorry to bust your fanboy theory but I am using a Note4 and Windows and have never used a Mac in my life, because as you clearly still haven't grasp, I am not talking about Apple per se, I am talking about the world getting brainwash into believing some crap tech is the future. What's so special about driverless car? The autopilot on a plane was invented 80 years ago! It's just the computer now are powerful enough to be used on the road, what exactly is the big deal, huh? Polishing an 80 year old tech is world-changing, is it? And you are so ridiculous if you think sending a dick pic is not a big deal. The smartphone has completely changed the way human COMMUNICATE. Hmm, let's see, what's more significant? Changing the way 6 billion human communicate, or making a car move by itself?

The difference is that a plane is in the air with pre planned flight paths with absolutely nothing to avoid nor is it capable of avoiding anything its cruise control simply maintaing speed and altitude driverless cars avoid collision detect proximity of objects and swerve out of the way or break accordingly. They use gps to navigate roads and highways that are populated not simply maintain speed. Again using the term "on my level" is idiotic. What is this magic "level"? What does it pertain to? Driverless cars are a consumer product, personal space travel consumer product, last I checked the internet is a product which is consumed/used by the masses ie consumer product. Your statement is idiotic as has been noted by pretty much every person who has commented. Get your head out of your hipster ass and take a look around at the real world. Innovation is everywhere, I'm sorry it wasn't marketed by a theif and con man like steve jobs but that doesn't make it less innovative.

"the internet is a consumer product" ... obviously you are not very educated, lol.

you still haven't grasped the fundamental point of argument, so I found like little article written by a Caltech VR PhD for you, and I want to highlight the follow paragraph:

I hate to break it to everyone, but great societal upheavals — like the Internet and smartphones — were generated by advances in our ability to act on and process the world. VR headsets show us what we can already see in a photograph but more sensationally. This is not enough to change society.

And your a fucking idiot. Now I am not going to go on about what "level" of intellect I have, there is no need. I already stated the facts. Your iphone didn't do shit for society, its internet on a phone, we already had internet so clearly the iphone didn't do anything to "advances in our ability to act on and process the world." so when I say your a fucking more on, trust that this is so. Now, as I said I could go on about how I was reading at the college level when I was 8, that I was studing philosophy, theology history anthropology, that by the time I was in middle school I began to delve into astronomy biology and quantum mechanics but you wouldn't understand on account of not being on my "level". So Iet me reiterate yet again, get your head out of your hipster rectal cavity and take a look around (you might want to wipe that shit out of your eyes first so you can see better) and realize your a fucking idiot who doesn't know a god damn thing.

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Possibly because the technology is close at hand. By this point in time (2016), there are very few original ideas so it seems that actually making a previous idea a reality is innovative enough. Wtf, they're working with artificial intelligence on making music. That's a future that makes me ill.

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You sound like the type of guy (I could be wrong) that if Apple doesn't produce it, it's complete garbage. Guess what, Apple wasn't so innovative themselves. Microsoft had the first tablet. Apple just made it dumb enough for everyone to use.

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no i am not an apple fanboy.

i just don't like how VR and driverless cars are shit ideas that people keep polishing.

really... you do realize that is a joke to point out the meaninglessness of a driverless car, right? And that a driverless car has NO value to rich people because they already have taxi and personal chauffeur for that purpose for the last 100 years..

also, a driverless car is like... a really stupid idea...

if the purpose of a driverless car is to move people from A to B without the person concentrating on directing the thing that is moving him... then... why do you need the CAR?

see, technology catching up to an idea is a bad recipe for innovation and success.most of the time, the blockbusters come from putting together what's available now in a way that no one has before, that is where innovation comes from. (If you want technology to catch up to an idea, you get something like wind or solar technology, it won't die away but it will never get anywhere meaningful either)

Now, Amazon and Tesla, on the other hand, is a case of technology catching up to an idea.And I really can't say they are a success. Amazon has been around for 20 years and I don't know anyone who call themselves an Amazon fanboy. As Tesla, let's just say, they are not the next Mercedes or Ferrari. More like the next Segway.

Uber is a success because it's cheaper than a taxi. Taxi locator apps have been around for a while (Hailo was one) but Uber is cheaper because they don't have the same requirements for their drivers that proper taxis do, such as insurance, a taxi licence, or the always expensive medallion needed to operate in a city.

As for Tesla, the electric car has been viable in some form or other for a very long time, but has been squashed by the existing establishment (automotive companies and oil companies) wanting to maximize their profits. Tesla just happens to make a really good electric car.

Let me rephrase that sentence for you: Apple made the smartphone aesthetically appealing, and accessible to the non computer savvy. Something that every single other company has failed to do. Even today.

There are very very few technologies that make it to consumers in the Northern Hemisphere, that hasn't been around for a decade or more. For instance, in 15 years, cell phones will be using a technology called orbital angular momentum division multiplexing. When it's released, it'll be given a cool sounding name and touted as brand new even though we know how to do it now.

dude the driverless car tech is actually quite good. Several car companies are already planning on incorporating it over the next decade. It's been proven to reduce the number of roadside accidents and there's a good bit of demand for the technology to go mainstream. Some ideas are bad, yes, while others are quite feasible. You just sound a bit snooty

All of this tech companies and other are bullshit. I have a real buisness idea. It's opening a pussy licker club. Just imagine men come to the club for licking pussy and pay for that. Really good idea.

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VR and driverless cars are coming, it's a matter of -when-.

Its not like nobody thought of a portable music player, a gui or having an internet browser on your cell phone before steve jobs.

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All Steve Jobs was good at was tricking a gullible public into buying unnecessarily expensive products for the status symbol boost.